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The First Neo-Liberal Science: Management and Neo-Liberalism

Sociology, 2016
There has been much recent scholarship on the nature of neo-liberalism. What follows develops these connections by examining early neo-liberal and management thought. The article explores the foundations of neo-liberal and management theory to argue they share fundamental features – namely active intervention, prioritising competition and the ...
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Migrant workers and the north of Ireland : between neoliberalism and sectarianism [PDF]

, 2015
In 1998, the north of Ireland emerged from a protracted civil insurgency sustained by a socio-political infrastructure comprising an expanded Keynesian welfare state and a developing neo-liberal economy.
Garvey, Brian, Stewart, Paul
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Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
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Modern parable and utopian thinking by F. J. Hinkelammert

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2016
The present socioeconomic situation is making manifest the crisis of the welfare state. We are running the risk of accepting that neo-liberalism, with the corresponding totalization of the market, is the only possible alternative.
José Serafín Béjar Bacas
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Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
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Social democracy is not the ideology we need in an economic downturn: even if the Left can sell social democracy to the UK electorate, it will have a hard time selling it to global markets [PDF]

, 2011
In our continuing series on social democracy, Lord Norton rejects Pete Redford’s idea that social democracy is the best way forward for the Left. But the appeal of social democracy is tarnished for three reasons: it rests on an inaccurate perception of ...
Norton, Philip
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Spiritual Manifest Destiny: B.A. Santamaria's Political Theology

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This article offers a reading of B.A. Santamaria's political theology and its role in the making of contemporary Australian political imaginaries. The article charts the shifting targets of Santamaria's critique and activism, showing his departure from the perceived communist threat to a wide‐ranging attack on liberal and leftist social movements.
Clare Monagle
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Global Elite as Transnational Capitalist Class

Historicka Sociologie, 2017
As a contribution to the burgeoning field of multidisciplinary globalization studies, this article evaluates how IR grand theories can conceptualize the phenomenon of global elite. It compares and synthesizes (neo)liberalism, constructivism, feminism and
Lukáš Kantor
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An Ordeal of Peoplehood: Indigenous Australians and the Debates over Sovereignty, Treaty, and Voice

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The Australian government's 2009 commitment to the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples did not make Indigenous Australians a “people.” In 2017, in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Indigenous Australians asserted peoplehood and asked Australians to recognise this via a constitutional amendment that would have created ...
Murray Goot, Tim Rowse
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La ciudad-aleph: Angosta de Héctor Abad Faciolince

Amerika, 2013
Angosta is interpreted as a utopian and/or dystopian colombian urban novel with an allegoric dimension. This counterfactual fiction plays with intertextuality and with references to the globalized neo-liberalism and to politics of exclusion.
Vera Toro
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